Legal Opinion

Taucher v. Rainer

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided November 24, 2003No. Civil Action 97-1711 (RMU/JMF)PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FACCIOLA, United States Magistrate Judge.

Introduction

Plaintiffs are commodity advisory publishers and their subscribers. Defendants are the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and its commissioners.

Plaintiffs prevailed in their constitutional challenge to a CFTC regulation that required the publishers to register with the agency before publishing information on commodity trading. Taucher v. Bom, 58 F.Supp.2d 464 (D.D.C.1999)(Urbina, J). The defendants’ appeal was voluntarily dismissed and plaintiffs seek attorney’s fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28…

2Cases cited14 opinions

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Covington v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1995
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3Cited by2 opinions

Taucher, Frank v. Brown-Hruska, SharonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2005
Taucher, Frank v. Brown-Hruska, SharonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2005